St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-31

| u iooI VI IIost III Int ground on account OF
the unusual and early depth of snow and ba
SAYS it insures an immense crop Of wheat, a.
it Will let the moisture into the grou nj rast
year the frost went down five to six feet 81 \ i
that was also assurance of big croa.
Michael Curry, man living five miles from
custer, VINO had been married but two weeks
started home from town On foot with q hag ~
groceries. and was found by a Searching ma tr
two days later lying half mile from hi.
home, on his face. with the sack On the bacl
of his neck. showing that he had fallen and
died probably from heart disease
1roquois is proud OF the handsome Conpre
gatonal church dedicated there Iasf wool
1t is the finest structure in the place ond ifs
erection is very largely due to the efforts of
the wife OF the pastor, A. J. Drake who has
been Installed as assistant pastor. Sbe
gathered much Of the money in the states
The average Dakotian says On the
heather, when he notes that the prosnerous
college at fankton is torn up ana a general
decentralization takes place there in theofoyiaa
circles over the question whether the hestbau
are To be perpetuaily punished for the viola
On OF laws they never heaed o. or not
The lroquios Herald calls upon tae legis.
lature TO repeal the present school law en-,
tirely and says IL nothing better Is presented.
adopt the district system for all organize /
counties, like that OF Illinois, which would do
away Win The wrongs OF u corrupt and ex-
penSiVe system like the present one
| The saloonkeepers in Salem have been fur
nished with the names OF parties they are
prohibited toseI liquor 10. Former efforts TO
ind ct and prosecute them Tor disregard of
| such orlefs failel in that county, ind it is b.
liovei thar, under the law. they cannot be
/ held ainenable for selling to topers
In sonie of the Southern counties petitions
are in circulation asking the legislature TO
pass law prohibiting the manufacture ana
sale OF liquors in the territory, subject TO
vote o. the people at d special election, and if
approved TO go into effect July I. 1857.
| Rev. Moray Clyde, the prea=her at Hurley
who Disappeared leaving wife and child and
taxing S25O OF her money, has not turned up,
and there is growing impression that the
preacher who could not resist the temptation
of $3.50 is not a safe inan in the pulpit.
Banker Preston and a land agent named
| Myron Ward Of White Lake, recently had an
argument that gave Ward a mutilated visage
! and caused the banker TO be taken to Plank
inton to answer to o charge of assault aud
| battery and lquidate an assessment
| The PlankintOn Free Press says there has
! been recent and urgent need in that place
for law providing for the hogging of wife
| beaters, and if the legislature does not pass
| the bill, there will probably soon be case of
| tar and feathers there.
great many bundles of CASTOR clothing.
| kindly sent to individuals reported destitute
were last week received at Monango One
package containing shirt, pants, etc. was adj
| dressed TO the rustling banker of the place.
| He is grateful
Four of the athletes of Madison had walk
! ing matcn last week. Ed Prentice dropped
| out at 16 miles, but the others kept on TWEEN
| ty three hours, and Ed Bartlett made 81
! miles, % laps; William Runph SIS; G. W.
Norton 1926.
The Monango Star. in Dichey county, says
the snow there averages about two feet in
depth, and drifts ten TO fifteen feet deep are
| pny-
OF storms. the six-year-old pioneer can recall
nothing like it.
| Hudson and Keystone are the names of am
bilious towns that didn't quite get railroad
and are deserted villages with Monaugo and
! Cakes u; the thrifty survivors The latter
has put up over hundred houses in three
| months.
| Hon. John III. Wilson, the Democratic can
| ddate for congress in 1884 speaking more
! particularly of his Black Hills region, SAYS
| the division question is nov a dead issue, and
the feeling for one state is swelling in to a
! boom.
! The roller mill at Webster has shipped
| largely to New York city of late, and has
advices that its flour stands at the head of
the market, and the demand is greater than
can be supplied. That is feather for Web
| Ster.
| Salem expects to have its charter amended
| in spite OF the congressional act prohibiting
such legislation, i'll order that a vote can be
| had on tax suffi cient to bore an artesian
well. More and better water is the urgent
need
AT Winfred, in Miner county, coal alleged
| to be of good quality has been struck at a
| depth of thirty feet, and q stock company is
being formed to mine it, although 1t is not
known whether it is in paying qua nifty o.
not.
| Tom Carney. in Dichey county, when he
| went into his barn to hitch up and go to
town, had lighted cigar in his mouth. After
| he mad started he looked back and saw the
| barn in flames. He calls that $500 cigar
Judge Thomas, the new judge for the Black
Hills, is making quite a reputation for timing
delinquent jurymen. At Rapid City he fined
three who were late at roll call, and then dis
| missed the jnry for the day.
| Hans Joeyn,,a prosperous German on the
Mouse, river, as he puts his hands upon the
bald heads of the first pair of twins ever
produced in that section, says: dots my
New Years presents
| Pierre is the first in the field to make a
| strong effort for the location of the soldiers
home, if provision is made for one by the
legislature. There win be fight for it if the
bill passes.
Wash Harris and brother, of ForeStburg
are spoken of as about the largest land own
ers in South Dakota, as they have 5000 acres.
That would not be counted as large farm in
the North.
state is being inaugurated. A big mass meet
Ing at Planknton is announced for Jan. 80
when eloquent orators are to fire the popular
heart.
The Yankton people insist that if Mitchell
does get its relentless fangs upon their
term of the supreme court their artesian
well shall not CO. They will fight for that
The Free Methodists are so numerous in
South Dakota that they are arranging to start
a college. Huron and Washington Springs are
the chief competitors for its location.
1t is insisted that the present winter shall
not be taken as sample of Dakota winters,
as there is a good deal more of it than the
average or than is really needed.
The Salem register calls for a public meet
ing to put down the gambling business in
that place. 1t is intimated that the editor has
h cid bad hands.
! Some thirty or forty mutual insurance COM
panies have sprung up in the territory this
| winter, most of them confined to one or two
| counties.
! The base-balers of North Dakota have
nearly reached the point of calling conven-
ton to organize leegue for North Dakota.
man recently frozen to death leaves nine
! young children, and his wife is in the insane
asylum al jamestown.
| The loss of numerous horses in Hand
county is attributed to their eating fax
| straw.
His Mind Was On Wood
Boston Transcript.
| Il used to think the men had an awfully
easy time, said Mrs. Franks, but I've
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